Julian Dekeuninck

How they died

Deadly force

Dekeuninck was a resident of a mental health center in Rock Island, and trailed a long history of mental issues and contact with police. An officer confronted him in the lobby of a roadside motel in the pre-dawn hours. For unknown reasons he'd attacked an employee there with a knife. He refused to drop the knife, and was fatally shot.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Julian Dekeuninck, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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